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Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888–1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
One constant remains with prisons: the influential role of writers who expose these systems. This underscores the enduring power of literature. -- Behrouz Boochani, author of No Friend But The Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison This book is one of those all-too-rare works of criticism that demonstrates how literary writing has so much to teach us about the world we have been forced to inhabit. Here the prison is conjured forth in the language of collective outrage and emancipatory longing, in a global narrative that reaches from Oscar Wilde to Behrouz Boochani, and in a mode of writing that seizes heart and mind with the granularity of inscription and in the cadences of its sound. -- Mark Steven, University of Exeter
